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noun

reprobate

a person without moral scruples

In a sentence

Six example sentences with reprobate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every chapter forgives the charming reprobate a little more, until the reader notices someone else has paid the bill.

    Literature

  • The studio cast him as a lovable reprobate for eleven films, and audiences forgave the character everything.

    Movies

  • Village records list one reprobate who sold the same donkey to three neighbors and left before market day.

    History

  • The tavern's resident reprobate sells you a treasure map that leads straight into an ambush he arranged himself.

    Gaming

  • The ballad celebrates a charming reprobate who borrows a fiddle, wins a bet with it, and never returns the instrument.

    Music

  • The reprobate in the dock had cheated three landlords and smiled through every witness's account of the missing rent.

    Law

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